The Federal Reserve Is the Real Winner

The Federal Reserve had a key role in the presidential election—possibly even a decisive one.

Exit poll results show that, not surprisingly, a majority of voters said the struggling economy was their top concern …. In the end, voters seemed to believe the economy was gradually getting better, and Obama deserved more time to make things right.

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Without question, the biggest factor impacting the economy this fall was the Federal Reserve’s decision in September to extend its controversial quantitative easing program indefinitely, until the economy is back on track for good. This type of monetary easing is an arcane strategy that doesn’t directly impact consumers. But it can have a powerful effect on the economy that filters through to ordinary people in many important ways. And the biggest advocate of quantitative easing has been Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

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Consumer confidence, in fact, rose sharply in the weeks leading up to the election, even as business leaders were becoming more worried about problems such as the looming fiscal cliff. That’s one thing that pushed our Obamanometer reading onto Obama’s side. The Fed probably had as much to do with that as anything else.

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Bernanke has also shown himself to be a pragmatist determined to do whatever is necessary to help the economy recover today, even if it risks unpleasant consequences—such as higher inflation—in the future. Voters seem to approve. So maybe the politicians ought to listen.

Support among the public and House for auditing the Fed is almost 100% … but Democratic Senate leader Reid has vowed to kill an audit (even though he previously supported it). Given that Obama has been re-elected, and the Dems have kept the Senate, it appears that the Fed will retain its powers without any real checks or balances.

“Reigning in ” the FED will have no affect whatsoever until our currency no longer has INTEREST being tacked onto it! The Central banks of the world are the makers of the financial catastrophes currently engulfing the world. The debt can NEVER BE REPAID! It’s a “snowball scam” of Jewish money men.

Return the job of printing currency to the CONGRESS – where the Constitution says it lies ONLY.
DISSOLVE the FED. We don’t need them. They’re just another Jewish-invented parasitical agency.

FredMSr

All that would be great if only the American people knew diddly squat about economics, but they don’t, which is why we are in this mess in the first place.

Washington76

The District of Columbia Act of 1871

Initial review of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 seems like it only sets up a local government (like Chicago or Seattle); how do you get that they formed a private corporation? If you take the Act out of its historical context and, from the present looking to the past, imagine who the parties involved are, we might agree.